Mariano Rivera Highlights

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Top, warmups before Mets game at Citi Field, 7/1/11. Bottom, Rivera and Arod after Yankee-Mets game, final 5-1. Top photo McIsaac, Newsday, bottom getty.

"Yankee fans had plenty to cheer on Friday...and by the end of the night the record crowd in the two-and-half-year history of the new place was chanting “Let’s Go Yankees.” It got even worse for the Mets when

• they dared to put a runner on base in the ninth.

Who comes in but good old

• Mariano Rivera,

• to a raucous standup cheer."...

7/1/11, "A Driving spirit is conspicuous by his absence," NY Times, George Vecsey (an article about Derek Jeter)